Shooting Challenge: Colorful Rorschachs

Shooting Challenge: Colorful Rorschachs

There’s something hypnotic about perfect symmetry, even if it’s faked. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, photograph a mirror image like a Rorschach test…but don’t worry, you can use Photoshop!

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9 Photos of Grisly Vintage Crime Scenes on Today’s NYC Streets

9 Photos of Grisly Vintage Crime Scenes on Today's NYC Streets

For the first time in 12 years New Yorkers are electing a mayor who is not Michael Bloomberg, leading to all sorts of reminiscing about how he’s changed the city. These photos offer a twist: grisly historical crimes, juxtaposed against Bloomberg’s sanitized modern-day New York City.

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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Guts Show Off a Camera Tough as Nails

Olympus OM-D E-M1 Guts Show Off a Camera Tough as Nails

Olympus just announced its latest flagship mirrorless camera, the OM-D EM-1. It’s a robust piece of gear that photogs will be clamoring for. And these tear-down photos from ePhotozine show how it’s built like a tank.

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These Stomach-Churning Images Were Shot From the Edges of Skyscrapers

These Stomach-Churning Images Were Shot From the Edges of Skyscrapers

Remember the young Russian photographers who illegally climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza a few months back? They’re back, fresh off a month-long Eurotrip which took them to the Cologne Cathedral, Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia, and at least one police station. And the photos they brought back will make your palms sweat.

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256 GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash card unveiled by SanDisk

SanDisk has unveiled a new high-capacity storage solution for photographers and videographers using devices supporting the CompactFlash format. The new storage card is the SanDisk Extreme Pro 256 GB CompactFlash card. The card meets the latest VPG-65 specification. SanDisk says that the new memory card provides minimum sustained write speeds of 65 MB per second […]

11 Glittering Insects From the US Geological Survey’s Bug Collection

11 Glittering Insects From the US Geological Survey's Bug Collection

Insects are pretty much the raison d’etre of macro photography. And while there are plenty examples out there, this collection of hundreds of high-res creepy crawlies collected by the U.S. Geological Survey deserves some special attention.

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Google+ Now Works as a Serious Photo Editor (If You Use Chrome)

Google+ is now rolling out many of the image adjustment tricks included in its Auto Awesome feature as manual tools—if you use the right browser.

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10 Photography Hacks to Help You Save Money on Camera Gear

Trying to become a real photographer? I know. All that gear that’ll make you legit costs oodles of cash money. Juggling which photo gear you need to buy and which you really need to buy can lead to credit card statement horror. Don’t worry though, DigitalRev has 10 hacks specific to photography that’ll save you a ton of bucks. Sure you might look ridiculous tilting tripods and using egg timers and rubber bands but your piggy bank will adore you more. [DigitalRev via PetaPixel]

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5 Photographs Taken Through Prisms

We all forgot when we grew up. Prisms are amazing. Here are a few reminders, compliments of this week’s Shooting Challenge.

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See How Three Famous Photographs Were Edited Before Photoshop Existed

See How Three Famous Photographs Were Edited Before Photoshop Existed

Magnum Photos, the 66-year-old photography organization and darkroom printer in New York, has handled more famous photos than you or I will ever get to even look at. Magnum’s master printer, Pablo Inirio, was editing with tried and true darkroom chemicals long before Photoshop was a twinkle in Adobe’s eye. And now, we can see his process.

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